"Your burden is not to clear your conscience But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience."
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The Cocktail Party
The Cocktail Party (1949) is a play by T. S. Eliot. Elements of the play are based on Alcestis, by the Ancient Greek playwright Euripides. The play was the most popular of Eliot's seven plays in his lifetime, although his 1935 play, Murder in the Cathedral, is better remembered today. It was written while Eliot was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1948.
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